I am attempting to install ht://Dig on Mac os 10.2.6. I have successfully
compiled and run the makefile utilities, although when I run the rundig
script, I get a command not found error.
This sounds like a problem with the way things were installed. Did you do a standard 'make install', or did you install the programs in some other manner? Are you sure you had sufficient permissions to install the file in the location you specified when you ran 'configure'? Does the BINDIR variable in rundig point to the directory where htdig, et. al. are located?
If I separately execute htdig and htmerge, everything seems to be ok, but
when I run htnotify, the script just seems to run forever (about 5min). When
This is a known issue. If you are interested in the gory details, see the following thread.
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=%5Bhtdig- dev%5D+OS+X+10.2&list=8825
There is a patch that at least partially corrects the problem at
ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.6/htnotifyNull.0
However if you need to use htnotify, the easiest fix is probably to just create prefix and suffix files and specify them accordingly in your ht://Dig config file. See the following links for more information.
http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#htnotify_prefix_file http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#htnotify_suffix_file
I launch the search.html file, I get a popup error:
Can't find file. No file exists at “/cgi-bin/htsearch”.
Again, this sounds like an installation problem. The error implies that htsearch was either not installed or not installed in the CGI directory specified by your Apache configuration file.
How did you specify the location where the components were to be installed? Did you use the 'configure' options described at http://www.htdig.org/install.html (e.g. --prefix, --with-cgi-bin-dir, etc.)?
How can I troubleshoot this in Terminal without having to deal with possible
problems that Apache config may be causing?
You can try running htsearch from the command line; however it sounds like the real problem is that something went very wrong with your ht://Dig install. If you don't see some other easy fix, it might be easiest to delete the installed components and try again from scratch. I was able to install 3.1.6 on a current version of OS X without any major obstacles, so I don't think you will run into any show stoppers.
Jim
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